Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… With the all conquering Harry Potter franchise drawing to a close after a decade of record breaking box office figures and immeasurable sales of merchandise and DVDs, reams are being written attempting to sum up the reasons for the worldwide phenomenon. Recipes for success are […]

Liam Trim with ten reasons to see Transformers: Dark of the Moon… The latest Transformers movie has been critically panned from virtually every corner. Danny Leigh off that BBC show with Claudia Winkleface is even calling for strike action to boycott the movie in The Guardian and thus send a message to studio execs. But […]

Liam Trim discusses David Cronenberg’s upcoming non-fiction adaptation, A Dangerous Method… As cinemagoers and telly watchers we are used to accomplished adaptations of fictions born on the page. Whether it’s the BBC’s latest Jane Austen costume drama or blockbusters like the Harry Potter series, we consume creations transformed from the page to the screen all […]

Liam Trim discusses Flaubert’s cinematic Madame Bovary… Gustave Flaubert’s mid nineteenth century novel Madame Bovary might not appear all that remarkable if you read it today. At the time its focus on the limitations of marriage, along with its abundance of controversial ingredients like frequent and shameless adultery and suicide, made it a scandalous work […]

Up in the Air, 2009. Directed by Jason Reitman. Starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Melanie Lynskey, Zach Galifianakis, J. K. Simmons and Sam Elliott. SYNOPSIS: An airborne corporate downsizer discovers that life on the move can be a lonely business. There are basically two George Clooneys. There’s the lovable, charming, cocky […]

Withnail & I, 1987. Directed by Bruce Robinson. Starring Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths and Ralph Brown. SYNOPSIS: Two unemployed and down-on-their-luck actors take a holiday in the countryside. Trapped inside a dank, empty cabin with an endless downpour of heavy rain, the two men form a complicated bond fuelled by booze, disaster, […]

Liam Trim on the viral marketing campaigns of The Dark Knight Rises and Super 8…Last week the hype for Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, moved into top gear with the launch of a clever and mysterious publicity campaign. On Thursday the 19th of May the official website became active, only to […]

Tom Jolliffe selects his Five Essential Dolph Lundgren films… From duking it out with Sly Stallone, to being Master Of The Universe, to taking on intergalactic drug dealers (yes… really!) or tearing up the desert in a Ferrari, Dolph Lundgren has pretty much done it all in the action world. He’s fired an array of […]

Zodiac, 2007. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Chloë Sevigny, Elias Koteas and Dermot Mulroney. SYNOPSIS: A San Francisco cartoonist becomes obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer, a murderer with seemingly random targets who sends cryptic codes and threats to the city’s police and […]

Drive Angry 3D, 2011. Directed by Patrick Lussier. Starring Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, Billy Burke, David More, Todd Farmer and Christa Campbell. SYNOPSIS: Milton (Nicolas Cage) breaks out of hell to rescue his baby granddaughter who has been abducted by the cult who also killed his daughter. However Satan’s assistant – The Accountant […]